fredag 13. januar 2012

Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

""I Heard It Through The Grapevine" is a landmark song in the history of Motown." So begins the entry on this song on Wikipedia, and truer words may never have been written. The song was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, in-house songwriters/producers/what-have-you of the famous Detroit label. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles were the first to record it in 1966, Gladys Knight & The Pips had a big hit with it in 1967, Marvin Gaye had the biggest hit and made it his siganture song in 1968, and then Creedence Clearwater Revival made it their own with an eleven minute version on their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory. This is absolutely awesome, an incredible achievement, a song to eclipse and even surpass most of John Fogerty's own compositions which were in many cases incredible in themselves. CCR's take on "... Grapevine" is one true classic!

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Erik Valebrokk

I was born in 1966, and can therefore no longer be called young and promising, more likely old and in the way. I used to be a music journalist, a despised reviewer of bad albums (especially by the people who made them), an enthusiastically kind reviewer of good albums and amazingly enough liked by a few people. There've been some years since I did any professional music writing, but for some time now I've been doing daily updates on Facebook where I've recommended one song per day.
There are no rules to this exercise. I write about any song that pops into my mind, never taking into account what kind of genre it belongs to, if it's especially hip or not, where it's from, etc.
The one really good thing about not writing professionally about music is that you can listen to exactly what you want, and even more importantly, not listening to things you don't want to. Getting your money from another source than music writing is highly recommended even if you don't get as many free albums as you once did. However, at times I miss doing it, and that's the motivation behind this blog. I hope you'll enjoy it!